Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot support itself free of Britain. Satisfied with the Free State where it stands, they say, "No further." When the oath abolition bill reached them a twelve-month ago they sank it with an amendment requiring British approval. Eamon de Yalera went to the people and asked them to jam the lower house (Dail) with his men. They did, last January. The new Dail repassed the bill in its original form in March. By the Irish Constitution it then became law after 60 days and a nominal motion in the Dail that "it will be deemed to have passed both...
...with the foibles of literary and publishing folk. Shrewd Mosca is arranging to have one of his authors win the coveted Zola prize when humble Fournier (small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes to call. Fournier is jostled and insulted by the secretaries, office boys, critics, novelists who jam the great man's office. He is allowed to cool his heels until the publisher learns that the prize committee has capriciously given its award to Fournier's privately published book because it was the only entry for which there was no logrolling. When, a year later...
...teachers looked to Springfield for salvation, and at last there came something hopeful. The Legislature passed the first of six measures designed to break up Chicago's $250,000,000 tax jam and release $30,000,000 to the teachers. The bill provided that the county treasurer may take over properties delinquent in taxes, operate them in receivership until income is produced to pay the taxes...
They roused him with muffins-they roused him with ice- They roused him with mustard and cress- They roused him with jam and judicious advice- They set him conundrums to guess. Lewis Carroll...
...WESTWOOD MYSTERY-A. Fielding -Kinsey ($2). Suave Barrister Youdale doubts his acquitted clients, is smothered in bed. Scotland Yard's only clue : a smear of tangerine jam...